If that is not motive enough for you, read this story!
Missing or Sold? Dead Baby Disappearance has Some People Wondering
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Posted on 01/31/2004 11:41:35 AM PST by cpforlife.org
Please spread this message far and wide.
We now have a petition on line to stop Georgetown University's use of aborted fetal cell lines.
If GU gets away with this, kiss the ethical vaccine deal we are on the verge of negotiating with Chiron goodbye...why bother with it if the Catholic scholars are saying the immoral research is okay? If the research at GU is acceptable then surely tainted vaccines are too, so why bother getting untainted ones?
And why bother with the new Fair Labeling and Informed Consent Legislation: See www.cogforlife.org/flica.htm proposed to Congress Jan 20th? If it is morally okay to use murdered babies in products, why should the public be made aware of this when purchasing medial products? In fact, why bother with any ethical research at all?
Here is the link for the petition: www.cogforlife.org/georgetownpetition.htm
Please pass this on in its entirety!
God bless,
Debi Vinnedge, Director
Children of God for Life
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Text of Petition:
Office of the Archbishop: His Eminence Theodore Cardinal McCarrick
Archdiocesan Pastoral Center
5001 Eastern Avenue
Hyattsville, Maryland 20782-3447
301-853-4500
Your Eminence,
We the undersigned respectfully request that you immediately put an end to the research using aborted fetal cell lines at Georgetown University or take action to remove its Catholic identity. It is an outrage and a scandal that any Catholic facility could condone the use of aborted fetal cell lines, regardless of how long ago the abortions occurred. Are we to believe that the passage of time diminishes the sin? By allowing this research to continue at GU, you are in effect:
1) Condoning an action that is clearly contrary to Catholic Church Teaching
2) Encouraging further fetal tissue research, since the use of the cell lines is acceptable to a Catholic institution
3) Encouraging further development of life-saving medical procedures through illicit research
4) Discouraging the use of alternative, morally acceptable avenues of research
5) Ignoring the impact of such a decision on countless other Catholic institutions that adhere to higher moral standards
Your acceptance of this activity at a Catholic university also serves to thwart efforts to stop radical legislation such as the NJ cloning bill allowing destruction of embryos and abortion of implanted cloned human beings. What will you say when the NIH asks you to use these cell lines in a federally funded research program? Will you likewise concede that you were not directly involved with the murder of innocent human life and therefore such research would be acceptable? Do you not realize that the very cell lines you are working with at GU were produced specifically for research purposes and carry the same moral repugnancy of any aborted fetal cell line produced today?
The Magisterium is quite clear on the duties of Catholic Universities as Pope John Paul II stated, “It is clear that university centres that do not observe the law of the Church and the teaching of the Magisterium, especially in the matter of bioethics, cannot be considered as having the character of a Catholic university.” (Address to the International Congress, Globalization and the Catholic University , December 5, 2002 )
Futher, you have the duty to uphold the sanctity and dignity of these aborted children in accord with the Vatican teaching in Donum Vitae: "The corpses of human embryos or fetuses, whether they have been deliberately aborted or not, must be respected just as the remains of other human beings Furthermore, the moral requirements must be safeguarded, that there be no complicity in deliberate abortion and that the risk of scandal be avoided” (I.4).(Instruction on Respect for Human Life in its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation: Replies to Certain Questions of the Day)
Do not bring further shame upon the Catholic Church and Georgetown University. If you allow this to continue you are no less guilty of immoral behavior than those conducting the research themselves, for you have the power to stop it. Thank you for your immediate attention to this most important matter.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1068813/posts Georgetown U Frankenstein Research
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1068614/posts Georgetown Weird Research Continues
To justify what is happening at GU negates the Churches credibility and authority to speak on related matters. It also sets a very dangerous precedent for yet another step away from the truth.
USING THE RESULTS OF AN EVIL ACT to bring about a greater good is but one degree removed from DOING EVIL AN EVIL ACT to bring about a greater good.
What is being done at GU is reminiscent of 1930’s Nazi Germany.
Signed and added to Petition:
Kevin Jeanfreau, Founder
CHRISTIAN PATRIOTS FOR LIFE
Deputy Director, Knights for Life
Edmond Jeanfreau
Louisiana Pro-Life Chairman, Knights of Columbus
Director, Knights for Life
If you would, a simple post to this thread such as "Signed"
would do our hearts some good. Thank You.
The suggestion that the amount of time which has elapsed since the abortions legitimates use of these cells for experiments is totally asinine and moronic. It is hard to believe Catholics speaking in such a jaded and casual manner. The primary issue of importance is reverence for the life that was ended with cruelty. No one has a right to profit from human remains (from a murder)taken without the consent of the victim (obviously impossible). This is junk thought and totally immoral, unethical, evil, wrong. No utilitarian argument can make it otherwise. We still understood that when I attended Jesuit Catholic institutions This is a terrible and grotesque tragedy which advances the tentacles of the culture of death.
If that is not motive enough for you, read this story!
Missing or Sold? Dead Baby Disappearance has Some People Wondering
Catholic Ping - let me know if you want on/off this list
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